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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.